The 8086, 8088, and 80186 have a 20-bit address bus, but the unusual segmented addressing scheme Intel chose for these processors actually produces effective addresses which can have 21 significant bits.

Dante's unusual approach to his piece — drawing upon personal events and experience, addressing the readers, and writing in Italian rather than Latin — marked a turning point in European poetry, when many writers abandoned highly stylized forms of writing for a simpler style.

The Torah prescribes rituals addressing the skin condition known as tzaraath and unusual genital discharges in a man or women ( Zav / Zavah ), which required special sacrifices and rituals in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem which included immersion in a mikveh.

It was also unusual in its lack of respect for television conventions, breaking the fourth wall by turning to the camera and directly addressing the viewers.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck worked independently on cloud categorization and came up with a different naming scheme that failed to make an impression even in his home country of France because it used unusual French names for cloud types.

At least one monotreme, the platypus, presents a particular sex determination scheme that in some ways resembles that of the ZW sex chromosomes of birds, and also lacks the SRY gene, whereas some rodents, such as several Arvicolinae ( voles and lemmings ), are also noted for their unusual sex determination systems.

Almost the entire work is made up of 389 stanzas of iambic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme " AbAbCCddEffEgg ", where the uppercase letters represent feminine rhymes while the lowercase letters represent masculine rhymes.

Their style was characterized by wit and metaphysical conceits — far-fetched or unusual similes or metaphors, such as in Andrew Marvell ’ s comparison of the soul with a drop of dew ; in an expanded epigram format, with the use of simple verse forms, octosyllabic couplets, quatrains or stanzas in which length of line and rhyme scheme enforce the sense.

Criticisms included the unusual control scheme, which Game Informer considered awkward ; lack of focus on the story, making Entertainment Weekly compare the game to a " 1990s arcade game, filled with over the top battle sequences, spectacular visual effects – and a pretty weak plot "; and backtracking, stated by GamePro that inexperienced players " might find it exhausting to keep revisiting the same old places over and over and over ".

The Book of Durrow is unusual in that it does not use the traditional scheme for assigning the symbols to the Evangelists.

Series 1 Talbot Sunbeam Lotus in an unusual colour scheme ; this example started life as an undercover model for Greater Manchester Police.

His VF-19 has an unusual control scheme that mimics a guitar, and he does not attack the enemy with weapons, choosing instead to fire speaker pods into enemy mecha, and playing his songs to the enemy.

Dickens started with a clear conception of his central character and of the course of the story in so far as it depended upon that personage ; he planned the action, the play of motive, with unusual definiteness, and adhered very closely in the working to this well-laid scheme '.

The scheme was successful in that 666, an expected result, was drawn on April 24, 1980 ; however, the unusual betting patterns alerted authorities to the matter.

In 1992 Albert Bridge was rewired and painted in an unusual colour scheme designed to make it more conspicuous in poor visibility, and hence avoid being damaged by collisions with shipping.

The game is notable for its ( at the time ) unusual control scheme: The keyboard is used to move Nick, while the mouse is used for aiming the weapons.

The work is a novel in verse composed of 590 Onegin stanzas ( sonnets written in iambic tetrameter, with the rhyme scheme following the unusual ababccddeffegg pattern of Eugene Onegin ).

Thus the unusual color scheme.

He does mention, however, that Moses composed a song to God in hexameter — a rather unusual ( and Greek ) metrical scheme for an ancient Hebrew.

Although classed as a " bipolar " HVDC scheme, the NorNed scheme is unusual for a Line-Commutated ( thyristor-based ) HVDC scheme since there is just one 12-pulse converter at each end of the scheme, midpoint-grounded at Eemshaven.

It is unusual in retaining its original body and chassis after the Routemaster overhaul scheme.

With a conventional meter and rhyme scheme that is unusual for Whitman, it was the only poem anthologized during Whitman's lifetime.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of Monday, November 13, 1961, as the State Ballet of Rhode Island Week, requesting all Rhode Islanders to give special attention to this unusual event which should contribute to the cultural life of the State.

Conversely, experimenters would consider as impressive such statements as the following, which, if they turned out to be hits, are so unusual as to be really significant:

( The penalties handed out in the electrical case, which included jail sentences, were unprecedented in anti-trust prosecutions, perhaps because the conspirators had displayed unusual ineptness in their pricing activities.

but naturally, the royal ritual, which provided unusual control over already supremely powerful divine spirits, was held responsible for regulating the universe and insuring the welfare of the kingdom.

I had a pocketful of money, which was unusual when I was in the army, and the plane would be grounded all night.

In American jurisprudence, under the rules for hearsay, admission of an unsupported affidavit as evidence is unusual ( especially if the affiant is not available for cross-examination ) with regard to material facts which may be dispositive of the matter at bar.

Cysteine is unusual since it has a sulfur atom at the second position in its side-chain, which has a larger atomic mass than the groups attached to the first carbon, which is attached to the α-carbon in the other standard amino acids, thus the ( R ) instead of ( S ).

It was unusual for a man of Mackenzie's humble origins to attain such a position in an age which generally offered such opportunity only to the privileged.

He also developed his own highly unusual theories of physics, according to which such concepts as " penetrability ", " suction and pressure " and " zig-zag-and-swirl " were discoveries on par with Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Jarry moved into a flat which the landlord had created through the unusual expedient of subdividing a larger flat by means of a horizontal rather than a vertical partition.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >

" This behavior is considered unusual for Laurents, which runs contrary to his current reputation.

Arcturus is a type K1. 5 IIIpe orange giant star — the letters " pe " stand for " peculiar emission ," which indicates that the spectrum of light given off by the star is unusual and full of emission lines.

Another feature of blue laws restricts the purchase of particular items on Sundays which is an unusual feature in modern American culture.

Jefferson is known to have done an unusual amount of traveling for the time in the American South, which is reflected in the difficulty of pigeonholing his music into one regional category.

Stolpe found very large amounts of amber on the island, which is unusual since amber is not normally found in lake Mälaren.

Tauranac designed the unusual ‘ lobster claw ’ BT34, featuring twin radiators mounted ahead of the front wheels, a single example of which was built for Hill.

These cylindrical carbon molecules have unusual properties, which are valuable for nanotechnology, electronics, optics and other fields of materials science and technology.

In a fish out of water comedy film, the main character or character finds himself in an unusual environment, which drives most of the humour.

In 980, the emperor Basil II received an unusual gift from Prince Vladimir of Kiev: 6, 000 Varangian warriors, which Basil formed into a new bodyguard known as the Varangian Guard.

At age 17, he sold several tales to The Black Cat, a magazine which specialized in unusual tales.

Bacterial cell walls are made of peptidoglycan ( also called murein ), which is made from polysaccharide chains cross-linked by unusual peptides containing D-amino acids.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.